You Are Indebted To Life Until You

If I Really Believe All Lives Have Equal Value, And If I Use Contraceptives, Which I Do, And If I'm Counselling My Son And My Two Daughters To Use Them, How Am I Not Serving The Women Who Don't Have Access To The Contraceptives They Need?

If You Don't Invest In The Woman, Empower Her, Give Her The Things She Needs To Lift Her Family Up, You're Just Not Going To Make The Progress That You Want To Make. But If You Put Her At The Centre, You Can Change A Lot For That Family, And It Has Ripple Effects Through The Economy.

Even In Our Own Agriculture Strategy, If We Got A Great New Drought-resistant Seed And We Managed To Get It Distributed In The System, We Just Assumed That It Would Reach Female Farmers. That's A False Assumption, Because Women Don't Interact With Agro-dealers. So If You Don't Develop Specific Programming To Ensure That Seed Gets In A Woman's Hands, Then The Extra Income [generated By Higher-yielding Crops] Goes Into Her Husband's Hands.

Helping People Doesn't Have To Be An Unsound Financial Strategy.

Sometimes It's The People You Can't Help Who Inspire You The Most.